In an interview with Breitbart News, Alan Dershowitz said that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s claim that the US has concentration camps at the southern border is equal to holocaust denial.
Breitbart:
Dershowitz characterized Ocasio-Cortez as “a bigoted ignoramus who makes comparisons between what’s going on on the southern border and the Holocaust,†adding, “Let nobody misunderstand what she was saying. When she used the words “concentration camps,†what she meant to invoke was the Holocaust. She didn’t make distinctions between death camps and detention centers, between Dachau and Auschwitz. Even in the concentration camps that may not have been death camps, so many people died because they were forced laborers and everything like that. And of course “Never Again†is the direct invocation of the Holocaust.â€
Derhsowitz continued, “By making that comparison, she becomes a Holocaust denier, because what’s she’s saying is, ‘Gee, if all that Hitler did is what Trump is doing on the southern border, then there were no death camps. There were no killing squads. There was no genocide. There was no murder of a million-and-a-half babies. There were no selections where people were picked based on their health and whether they were twins and subjected to the most gruesome form of punishment.’â€
Ocasio-Cortez’s subsequent denial that she was invoking the Holocaust with her comments about “concentration camps†amounted to a “nonsense excuse†and an “insult to the intelligence,†determined Dershowitz.
“Then you get Democrats who are prepared to just support anything Democrats say,†noted Dershowitz, highlighting Rep. Jerry Nadler’s (D-NY) expressed support for Ocasio-Cortez’s Holocaust reference. “Look, there are Republicans like that, too, but we’re talking about Democrats, now. The idea that any Democrat — from New York, no less, representing a heavily Jewish district — would defend her for those statements just tells us what’s going on in the world today, and it’s not a good scene.â€
Dershowitz is right that she is trivializing what the Nazis actually did. There is no comparison between putting law breakers in detention centers and the Nazis rounding up innocent Jews and committing genocide against them.
The full interview is below:
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